Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Superblocks

Curbside space turned into dining on Mott Street. File photo: Gersh Kuntzman

Pedestrianize ‘Main Street’ To Save It, Says Comptroller (and Mayoral Hopeful) Scott Stringer

By Dave Colon | Aug 7, 2020 | No Comments

The future of the city's economic recovery could be determined by our own two feet, according to a series of proposals from the city's top money man.

A FedEx truck drives on the sidewalk right next to the park on St. Mark's Avenue.

Scott Stringer Channels Robert F. Kennedy in Vision for Mid-Block Playgrounds

By Julianne Cuba | Apr 29, 2019 | 4 Comments

A back-to-the-future plan to turn through streets into cul-de-sacs with playgrounds in the middle (and FedEx on the sidewalk).

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Barcelona’s Superblocks: Change the Grid, Change Your Neighborhood

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Aug 7, 2018 | No Comments

Without dangerous, noisy car traffic overrunning the streets, superblocks are full of life.

A Proposal for Incremental Parking Reform in NYC

By Stephen Miller | Aug 19, 2014 | 16 Comments

In most of New York City, zoning requirements compel new development to include a certain amount of parking. These mandates make housing more expensive while causing more traffic and pollution, but the Department of City Planning took only the most timid steps to reform them during the Bloomberg administration, and the de Blasio administration isn’t shaping up […]

In Third Term, Bloomberg Must Align All Agencies With PlaNYC

By Ron Shiffman | Nov 19, 2009 | 2 Comments

We continue our series on the next four years of New York City transportation and planning policy with today’s essay by Ron Shiffman. Co-founder of the Pratt Center for Community Development and a professor at the Pratt Institute’s Graduate Center for Planning, Shiffman served on the City Planning Commission from 1990 to 1996. Read previous […]

Let’s Chop Up Superblocks

By Alex Marshall | Feb 22, 2008 | 22 Comments

Forest City’s Atlantic Yards project would create two massive superblocks in Prospect Hts., Brooklyn Portland, Oregon, which has ascended the ranks of cities judged most walkable, bikable, and urbane, benefits mightily from its small 200-foot square blocks, which provide businesses more street frontage and people more streets on which to bike, cycle and walk. These […]

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